Re: ipfw, pf and ALTQ on outbound traffic? (or: "The net is slow when I upload!")

2009-03-21 Thread Andrew
Hi Jubal, Jubal Kessler wrote: Greetings, Is there a general how-to, or a set of coherent instructions, for shaping outbound traffic such that when I upload something over my asymmetric cable-modem pipe, doing so doesn't completely kill my Web browsing or any other attempts to use my Interne

Re: installing ports xorg

2009-03-21 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Tim Judd wrote: > I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport, updated > ports tree today. > > # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg > # make install > # > > > > So what am i missing? > If xorg is already installed, you won't see any output. This is "expected"

Re: installing ports xorg

2009-03-21 Thread Fbsd1
Tim Judd wrote: I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport, updated ports tree today. # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg # make install # So what am i missing? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-install.html tells me to install this port. I even deleted /var/db/pkg/* an

Re: Need help for acroread8

2009-03-21 Thread Manish Jain
Hello Boris, I can't really explain how, but I have got acroread8 up and running on my system. All I did was deinstall and reinstall pango and linux-pango. I then created the following 2 symlinks : /compat/linux/etc/pango/pango.modules -> /compat/linux/etc/pango/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:43:01 -0600 Modulok wrote: > I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of > no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally, > all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted. Best encrypted, or at least

Re: Adding new domain in mail server

2009-03-21 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Ruel Luchavez wrote: > we have here a mail server running in FreeBSD 6.2 which is holding out 2 > domain (e.g u...@mydomain.com. w...@mydomain2.com) and it running very good, > unfortunately I'm not the person who configure this mail stuff. > > heres my problem: > > we bough

Re: FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card

2009-03-21 Thread freebsdlover
THE LAST LINE PUT IT IN FIRST LINE legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 THAT LINE #WiFI Config legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load="YES" wlan_load="YES" firmware_load="YES" iwi_bss_load="YES" iwi_ibss_load="YES" iwi_monitor_load="YES" Curley-2 wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD-questions Group

installing ports xorg

2009-03-21 Thread Tim Judd
I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport, updated ports tree today. # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg # make install # So what am i missing? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-install.html tells me to install this port. I even deleted /var/db/pkg/* and /var/db/ports/* t

ipfw, pf and ALTQ on outbound traffic? (or: "The net is slow when I upload!")

2009-03-21 Thread Jubal Kessler
Greetings, Is there a general how-to, or a set of coherent instructions, for shaping outbound traffic such that when I upload something over my asymmetric cable-modem pipe, doing so doesn't completely kill my Web browsing or any other attempts to use my Internet connection? (To put it anothe

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-03-21

2009-03-21 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

Re: Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:27:20 +0200, Manolis Kiagias > wrote: >> Wildly off-topic as we are discussing Windows, but all recent versions >> (XP, Vista, etc) can handle zip files. They call them "compressed >> folders" (don't confuse with NTFS compression though) and even hav

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Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chuck Robey writes: > I've had stuff like this happen to me, once in a while. it's NEVER a fact of > bash really suddenly losing something so major. What you have to is to look > at > previous parts of your code, for things like unclosed parens, unclosed quotes, > things like that. The errors

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oh, crap, I flubbed it about the bash error. It's SO often something claimed by folks, I knee-jerked that it had to be a previous line in error. Sorry. > "Daniel Bye" writes: > >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Mic

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Daniel Bye" writes: > >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. >>> All >>> of a sudden when I login,

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
NOTE: could you please do break lines properly on your posts? answering your mails is not easy. Depending upon what your budget is, Tranzeo has some excellent wireless products that are ideal for point-point links. Encryption is built-in and they can be configured for point-point or point-mu

possible Fault in HAL / Thunar will not mount USB Drives

2009-03-21 Thread dmaizey
possible Fault in HAL i have xfce4.6 installed and cannot auto mount any external usb device > > i have tried various policykit settings enclosed are the diagnositic > information gathered please can you tell me if this is a genuine > fault or weather there si another way of doing this. i am tryi

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:39:31 -0500 Adam Vande More wrote: > RW wrote: > > > > IMO this doesn't make any sense. If portupgrade is failing on a port > > where manual "make install" works, then portupgrade simply has a > > bug. Any port upgrading tool belongs in a port, because it's more > > importa

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Daniel Bye" writes: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. >> All >> of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a >> bunch >> of error messages

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Craig Russell
Depending upon what your budget is, Tranzeo has some excellent wireless products that are ideal for point-point links. Encryption is built-in and they can be configured for point-point or point-multipoint (just in case the project expands). One problem that you may run into, if both sides of

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All > of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch > of error messages, like so > > -bash: command substitu

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread bruce
speaking comparatively, of course :D On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:10:42 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> Have a look at Microtik's equipment very cheap > > i don't think it's cheap :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Michael P. Soulier" writes: > I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All > of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch > of error messages, like so > > -bash: command substitution: line 39: syntax error near unexpected token

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Doy you have a pre-determined budget for this "homework"? have a look at california amplifiers -> calamp.com if I remember correctly. amplifiers are kind of "idiot" solution. it just make more mess for others. DO NOT use them unless you REALLY have to == the best antennas are not enough. f

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Have a look at Microtik's equipment very cheap i don't think it's cheap :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freeb

bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch of error messages, like so -bash: command substitution: line 39: syntax error near unexpected token `)' -bash: command substitution:

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
buy a couple high end radios with built in antennas, Ubiquiti PowerStations this is excellent if builtin antennas have quite high gains. there are no connector losses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
LAN<->BSDrouter<->modem<->Antenna<~~air~~>Antenna<->modem<->DSL Your BSD router would act as a gateway, eventually using functions like "IPDIVERT and DHCPd via RF". It would then serve as an AP, put in simple words. This should be achievable mostly by means of the base OS. Do not use builtin

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm looking for general pointers of both hardware and software to achieve this. I'd like to employ FreeBSD as much as is feasible. This there are LOT of wireless bridges that can do if proper antennas are used. depending of where you are it may be not legal (output power*antenna gain can't be

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
Doy you have a pre-determined budget for this "homework"? have a look at california amplifiers -> calamp.com if I remember correctly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread bruce
Hi Have a look at Microtik's equipment very cheap for what it does and linux based, else there is also the Ubiquity Powerstation's, I have used both with success, Microtik boasts a 70Km wireless link with the right wireless card and antennae :D Regards, Bruce Grobler On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Outback Dingo
Just take some advice from the owner of a WISP... and a FreeBSD user. if your only trying to get connectivity a less then 500 USD this is easily accomplished buy a couple high end radios with built in antennas, Ubiquiti PowerStations come to mind, place 1 at each end of the link if line of sight

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:43:01 -0600, Modulok wrote: > Something > like: > > LAN<->BSDrouter<->modem<->Antenna<~~air~~>Antenna<->modem<->DSL Your BSD router would act as a gateway, eventually using functions like "IPDIVERT and DHCPd via RF". It would then serve as an AP, put in simple words. This

Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Modulok
List, I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally, all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted. (Nice, but not entirely required.) 3Mb/s would be great! Something like: LAN<->BSD

Re: speed in extracting rar files - unrar vs. 7z

2009-03-21 Thread Ghirai
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:27:02 -0800 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 17:55:49 RW wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:53:16 +0200 > > > > Ghirai wrote: > > > The shareware WinRAR on windows seems to be better implemented > > > (?), as it uses both cores to the fullest, and as such the time

Re: Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Polytropon
First of all, thanks for enlightening me. I don't use any MICROS~1 products so it was a really honest question. Whenever I needed interoperability with a "Windows" PC, there was the big problem: For any additional functionality "foo" you needed to install "WinFoo". There was nothing from the OS's s

Re: Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0100 (CET), "Zbigniew Szalbot" > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip >> extenstion >> so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any >> special >> software? > > Maybe this is a stupid follow-up

Re: Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0100 (CET), "Zbigniew Szalbot" > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion >> so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special >> software? >> > > Maybe th

Re: Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0100 (CET), "Zbigniew Szalbot" wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion > so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special > software? Maybe this is a stupid follow-up question, but...

Re: Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, > I believe you are looking for archivers/zip Indeed I was! :) Thank you Manolis! $ zip easter *.mov created an easter.zip file with all the mov files in the archive. Great as I was afraid I would have to download the files, archive them and then upload which would take an awful lot of

Re: Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special software? ports/archivers/zip Man gzip suggests -S switch but when I tried it, I could not open the file under windows. Many thanks for your s

Re: Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion > so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special > software? > > Man gzip suggests -S switch but when I tried it, I could not open the file > under windows. Ma

Compression with *.zip output

2009-03-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special software? Man gzip suggests -S switch but when I tried it, I could not open the file under windows. Many thanks for your suggestions! Have

Re: speed in extracting rar files - unrar vs. 7z

2009-03-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
do you have softdep enabled. if no, and the are lot of small files, it may be this. you said CPU load is low ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre